F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.”
“For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.”
Source: Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New
“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“For to be human, at its core, is to question and quest. To seek answers about who we are. Even when--or especially when--those answers are beyond our grasp. And what I have learned is that sometimes that search leads us to the darkest places imaginable. In those times, we need each other to find our way back home. To remember who we are. But after we find our way back to the light, we must remember to reach even higher next time. To look farther. To explore the greatest mysteries and follow the craziest stories...and toward what is possible.”
Source: Dark Nights: Metal
“For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.”
Source: Death in Venice
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.”
Source: Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)
“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”
“For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.”
“For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes
“For to create is not rebellion, but remembrance of the spark the Creator placed within us.”
Source: A Signal Through Time
“For to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”
“For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
Source: Apology
“For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]”
“For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(”
“For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.”
“For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there”
“For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.”
“For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”
Source: Molloy
“For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.”
Source: The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time
“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”
“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.”
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”
Source: Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections
“For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.”
“For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.”
“For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.”
“For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”
Source: Broken Music: A Memoir
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)
“For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.”
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
“For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”
“For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.”
Source: The Story of Mankind
“For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace”
“For Tom and many men the inevitable release of tension that occurs at the completion of any sporting event, news event, or movie provides a release from the tension he feels in his life.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“For Tom, she was a bit like the dishes at the food joint next door: huge plates full of flavour and tasting them, you would start hungering for more, but too much of them would affect your stomach. It can't really cope if you get them more often than once a month.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“For tommorow belongs
to those that prepare for it today.”
“For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.”
“For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...”
“For too brief a moment in the universe the veil was lifted. The mysterious became known. Questions met answers somewhere behind the stars. Furrowed brows were smoothed and eyelids closed over long unblinking stares.
Your beloved occupied the cosmos. You awoke to sunrays and nestled down to sleep in moonlight. All life was a gift open to you and burgeoning for you. Choirs sang to harps and your feet moved to ancestral drumbeats. For you were sustaining and being sustained by the arms of your beloved.
Now the days stretch before you with the dryness and sameness of desert dunes. And in this season of grief we who love you have become invisible to you. Our words worry the empty air around you and you can sense no meaning in our speech.
Yet, we are here. We are still here. Our hearts ache to support you.
We are always loving you.
You are not alone.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.”
“For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!”
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.”